Blankets?

[jt2378]

No help here but also wondering. H absolutely despises any blanket touching her and will kick it off immediately. She does not like her feet being confined so sleep sacks are a no go also. I end up always putting her in fleece one piece outfits and she doesn't seen cold (she normally runs on the warmer side anyways)

I think the pillow thing is suggested at 2.

[doglover31]

We just put I in long sleeved and footed pajamas. He has a blanket, but he just kicks it off. I think at this age they would move a blanket if they were having a hard time breathing.

[melw629]

C still has plenty of room in his sleep sack...I got him this: www.babydeedee.com/product/peacock/ size large. When it's warmer outside, I put a blanket on him instead, but it never stays. He ends up sleeping on top of it all bunched up. At least it's still radiating his body heat back to him from underneath? He sleeps in cotton footie pajamas year round, and doesn't seem to mind not having anything else to keep him warm. If he were too cold, he'd definitely wake up and complain!

[spacedcadet]

They should be ok with a blanket at this age. I usually try to dress G in long sleeves and pants to sleep in case he kicks off the blanket. We have been using at least a muslin blanket since late summer maybe? I have even wanted to give him a pillow as well but DH mixed that at this point. Maybe you can try a light breathable blanket at first for your peace of mind and see how that works.

[spacedcadet]

I typically cover him with the blanket when I put him down, he kicks it off and tosses and turns until he eventually goes to sleep and then I will go back in and cover him up with the blanket. I do try to dress him warm enough so he will still be fine when he tosses the blanket off in the middle of the night or whatever.

[jt2378]

H is also doing acrobats the entire night so a blanket seems useless at this point unless its for a cuddle

[spacedcadet]

Apr 6, 2016 14:00:31 GMT -5 @100poppies said:

@spacecadet--he doesn't wake up when you go back in? I might try that...

No he doesn't. It usually takes him forever to go to sleep, but when he finally does, he sleeps pretty deeply. So if we put him down at around 8:30, we turn on the white noise machine and humidifier and get him settled and shut the door so it is quieter. Then I will go and check on him around 10 or so and prop his door open, and cover him with the blanket.

[jt2378]

Apr 6, 2016 14:12:25 GMT -5 N40Mom said:

J sleeps with a blanket at daycare. Apparently she likes to pull it up over her face to sleep. But she is the same way as the others at home ... if she's awake she'll roll everywhere or ball it up. On the rare nights she's really tired and it's particularly cold, I've draped it over her and she has slept under it just fine. But that's only been once or twice because I'm still paranoid about it and I'll go in and take it away once she's fast asleep. So, we're doing the opposite of spacedcadet .

I was chatting with a friend who was talking about how her son (same age) sleeps with three stuffed animals and I started wondering if I'm the only one who still has nothing in the crib.

Three stuffed bunnies in her crib...Instead of a paci, H has a bunny ear in her mouth and legit falls asleep like that, I have checked on her a couple hours after I put her down and its still in her mouth, lol. Taking away this poor, pathetic, sopping wet ear bunny will be torture like the paci for others

[jt2378]

@beckaroo, sorry about the zipper, poor guy and poor you

About the music projector, H always had a fish one that turned off automatically after 25 minutes and loved it.. Then all of a sudden she didn't want it at all anymore so basically I think they just constantly change on things, I wouldn't worry too much about creating a bad habit, if its helping him sleep right now I say go with it.

[jt2378]

Apr 6, 2016 20:49:22 GMT -5 @beckaroo said:

jt2378 I think every time I think I have something figured out regarding sleeping it all changes.

Yes, I feel this way on alot of things, when something is going good, something else goes all wrong, lol

[spacedcadet]

Apr 6, 2016 19:44:30 GMT -5 @beckaroo said:

spacedcadet do you turn off the white noise machine when you go back in?

S has a music/projector thing we put on at bedtime. Up until a week ago I'd hit the 15 minute timer and it would go off. We have been in the midst of middle of the night wakeups. Then one night dh put him to bed and forgot to put the timer on and it played all night, and he didn't wake up. We've left it running all night since. I'm kind of worried we are starting another habit we will have to break later.

Ok, so basically I kind of do the most with bedtime routine because it was such a nightmare for so long and even now it sometimes takes him an hour or more to actually fall asleep after we put him in the crib. I know that all of this will bite us later on but I give no fucks right now.

So he has a white noise machine with projector that we run all night and he also has an air purifier that runs all of the time as well. He has a humidifier as well. So we put him down with a bottle that has a couple of oz of milk and give him his paci and he has a lovey that he snuggles. He has a dog that plays "night time" music in 5 min increments that we start at this time usually with 15 mins set. We put the blanket in him then and then shit his door because his room is next to the kitchen/ living room area. He drinks the bottle and tosses and turns etc until he falls asleep. We have a video monitor to check on him. When he eventually falls asleep, we go back in, get the bottle, cover him and prop the door open.

I think the primary culprit for his wake ups is that he knocks the paci out of the crib in the middle of the night and can't find it because I have seen him wake up, sit up, find the paci, and then topple back over to sleep.

[designaddiction]

Late, but we do the sleep sack here, he loves it. I was just talking the other day what are we going to do when he outgrows it, which is soon. We also do footed pajamas. We are already in AC weather here so it keeps him warm while we keep cool. Haha.
We also do the white noise machine/nightlight all night. It's a crap shoot whether he sleeps all night though so who knows what really works.

[designaddiction]

And we do a paci too. Dreading giving that one up too.

[doglover31]

Apr 6, 2016 21:16:10 GMT -5 @giamia923 said:

Apr 6, 2016 19:44:30 GMT -5 @beckaroo said:

spacedcadet do you turn off the white noise machine when you go back in?

S has a music/projector thing we put on at bedtime. Up until a week ago I'd hit the 15 minute timer and it would go off. We have been in the midst of middle of the night wakeups. Then one night dh put him to bed and forgot to put the timer on and it played all night, and he didn't wake up. We've left it running all night since. I'm kind of worried we are starting another habit we will have to break later.

We've had the white noise running continuously for 18 months lol.

Same here. I don't plan on giving that up anytime soon. It's amazing!

[jt2378]

We had one early on but it didn't seem to help with sleep, (as you all know she was a complete disaster in that dept) lol

[doglover31]

Apr 7, 2016 18:23:36 GMT -5 @beckaroo said:

Maybe I should have gotten the noise machine a long time ago!!! I had no idea what I was missing. How have we not talked about these before?

For us it mainly helps block noise happening in the rest of the house. He was a crappy sleeper for the first year, but at least it kept any noise from waking him up when he was asleep.

[judyblume14]

Ohh ohh! Who cares about our sleep stuff?!

L sleeps in footies. We have fleece for when it's cold in the house, and cotton for when it's not cold in the house. She sleeps ON her blanket, snuggling her kitty, and sometimes if I think she might be cold, I'll cover her with another blanket from the waist down. She has a sleep sheep, and we set it to one of the songs (instead of white noise) - it's shuts off after maybe 25 minutes?